For the Record: Nov. 14, 2025.
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
For the Record is a weekly column that rounds up details about new and pending recordings of interest to the new-music community – contemporary classical music and jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music, and idioms for which no clever genre name has been coined – on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, digital-only formats… you name it.
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Topspin.
There’s news from veteran drummer and composer Bobby Previte, who’s got a killer new band he wants to document. Second Arrow is Previte’s first new small group in roughly 20 years, a mix of disparate, versatile players who are all leaders in their own right: Matt Bauder on woodwinds, Wendy Eisenberg on guitar, Angela Sanchez on piano and keyboards, and longtime comrade Jerome Harris on 5-string electric bass guitar. For a taste, check out “Circle,” recorded not quite a month ago at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT.
On his website, Previte describes the group’s modus operandi:
I have been interested in the idea of a group that takes separate paths to the same goal, and whose idea of playing “together” is broader than the usual “locked-in” approach. To quote my friend and the great musician Steve Swallow, who said it better than I ever could, ‘Interaction is overrated.’ The music for SECOND ARROW is probably the most ensemble dependent music I have ever presented—just a series of signposts for these particular improvisers, directing them to the clearest path of connection. Or put another way, “It’s not the notes you play. It’s how you play ‘em.”
Previte is now raising funds to mix, master, and manufacture his new album through Fractured Atlas, with a relatively modest goal of $6,000. You can make a tax-deductible contribution here.
While you’re waiting for that record to manifest, there’s an especially rich range of new jazz and creative-music projects awaiting your attention this week… in particular, don’t miss the new titles listed below from Flyways, Russ Lossing, Kevin Sun, and Kalia Vandever. And while no one’s likely to mistake the new record by Nate Wooley as a “jazz album,” anyone who admires Wooley’s questing spirit will certainly respond to his complex, contemplative mix of modest musical gestures and environmental sounds. (If you want a physical copy, don’t wait: only 50 were made, and I already bought mine.)
In the years since conductor Gil Rose founded the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) in 1996, the ensemble has produced a series of recordings for its in-house label, BMOP/sound, comprising as an invaluable reference library of 20th- and 21st-century American music. (The orchestra has also released records on other labels; you’ll see one example, The 21st-Century Orchestra: Music from Brown University, listed among today’s releases below.)
Now on the cusp of celebrating its 30th anniversary, BMOP today launches a new series of digital singles to accompany its mainline album releases. Honestly, it feels a little funny to refer to Die Dämmerungen, a substantial four-movement orchestral work by David Felder, as a “single.” But if you’re new to Felder, formerly the longtime chair of the composition department at SUNY Buffalo and music director of the storied June in Buffalo Festival, these crepuscular twilight impressions – accompanied by poetic inscriptions from William Carlos Williams, Dana Gioia, Psalm 130, and Friedrich Nietzsche – make for a persuasive introduction.
New this week.
Thomas Adès - The Exterminating Angel Symphony; Violin Concerto - Leila Josefowicz, Minnesota Orchestra/Thomas Søndergård (Pentatone)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project - The 21st-Century Orchestra: Music from Brown University - compositions by Wang Lu, Joseph Butch Rovan, Anthony Cheung, and Eric Nathan (New Focus)
Tim Brady - For Electric Guitar (people | places | records)
Ruby Colley - Hello Halo - Exaudi Vocal Ensemble (New Amsterdam)
Joe Cutler/Max Hoehn - Sonata for Broken Fingers - Claire Booth, Lucy Schaufer, Christopher Lemmings, James Cleverdon, Stephen Richardson, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sian Edwards (Birmingham Record Company)
Izabela Dłużyk - Journey Home (Sawyer Spaces)
Elder Ones - New Monuments Live in Vilnius (Fernflower)
JJJJJerome Ellis - Vesper Sparrow (Shelter Press)
Ensemble 0 - L’incroyable femme des neiges (laaps)
Douglas Farrand - a harmony of many ears following the line, close to the ground or from a distance, barely hearing a vigorous buffeting of grasses and the laying of petals, one at a time, in the midst of it all (Sawyer Spaces)
David Felder - Die Dämmerungen - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
Flyways (Anaïs Maviel, Mara Rosenbloom, Jordyn Davis) - Mutualism (Daily Music)
Gabriela Lena Frank - Conquest Requiem; Antonio Estévez - Cantata Criolla - Jessica Rivera, Aquiles Machado, Andrew Garland, Juan Tomás Martínez Yépez, Nashville Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos)
Philip Glass & Tenzin Choegyal - Be the Sky (Orange Mountain Music)
Moon Ha - String Works - performances by Amorsima Trio, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Momenta Quartet, and others (Stradivarius)
Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song (Dauw)
Russ Lossing - Proximity Alert (Songs)
Leo Okagawa - A Sound Travelogue: Greece (Sawyer Spaces)
Alessandro Rovegno - A Generational Monsoon (Sawyer Spaces)
SDEM - At Quadrant Park (Quadrant Park)
Kevin Sun - lofi at lowlands 二 (endectomorph music)
Chad Taylor Quintet - Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Kalia Vandever - Another View (Northern Spy)
Nate Wooley - A Fine Rain Anoints the Canal Machinery (Discreet Archive)
Syo Yoshihama - untitled (in the garden) (Sawyer Spaces)
Upcoming releases.
November 21.
Jane Ira Bloom & Brian Shankar Adler - once like a spark (Adhyâropa)
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach - Suzanne Vega, Collegium Vocale Gent, Ictus/Tom De Cock (vlek)
Talk Show (Steph Richards & Qasim Naqvi) - Miss America (We Jazz)
December 1.
Francois Houle/Georg Graewe - music for clarinet and piano (Trost)
December 5.
Brad Warnaar - Cornet Concerto; Chick Corea - Trombone Concerto; Jennifer Higdon - Low Brass Concerto - José Sibaja, Joseph Alessi, Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos)
December 12.
mattie barbier - is this the land i wish death to find me (Discreet Archive)
December 19.
Dan Trueman - Memory Field - Dan Trueman, Logan Coale, Bergamot Quartet (Many Arrows)
January 9.
Leo Genovese - Solo Brooklyn (577 Records)
February 27.
Vadim Neselovskyi - Preservantia - Vadim Neselovskyi, Ysaÿe String Trio (Tzadik)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.
Hi Steve - see my reply to your comment to Musical Concepts on Insty - thanks!!